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Have you ever worked at something for a long time and then suddenly you feel like you didn’t make the progress you expected? It’s not that you didn’t meet your goals or didn’t succeed, it’s that you had unacknowledged expectations of where you thought you would be at a certain point. That feeling is the pressure we put on ourselves! Recently I had an encounter that helped me see that…

We found our way to the Avatarian land of Pandora while visiting Disneyworld! I have to say, even if you don’t want to wait in a long line for the rides you should go walk around this new addition to Animal Kingdom just because it’s so well designed. The floating sky islands and all the “plant life” both real and fantasy is so beautiful and striking. The attention to detail…

I love pretty much every aspect of “Disney culture”. I watched the channel growing up. I know all the movies. I love the Disney parks. I love the songs from the classic movies. But it really isn’t the movies, the channel, the music, the parks, the princesses, or the stories that made me love all things Disney. It’s the imagination. The inspiration. It’s the belief that anything can be possible…

My new concept album has just come out! You can get it here! This feels like the perfect time and place to talk about the story behind each of the songs and how they came together to create the concept album that became The Phoenix Story. So we’ll go in order from the start. Off The Market I wrote this song about three or four years ago with one of…

I love accessories, especially jewelry and specifically bracelets. A bracelet that’s functional as well? Even better! That’s how I feel about the women’s watch collection at Jord and the new watch that Jord sent to me! Sometimes when I’ve worn metal watches I find them to be heavy and hot, especially in the summer. This is part of what made my wooden Jord watch the perfect watch to take on our trip to…

The title “Told You So” came to me when I was thinking about how to finish this album. I knew the title was great, but creating a song that was fun, sassy, but not too juvenile was my main goal. I wanted to say what we’ve all thought at one point or another. So I had the title; “Told You So”, but I was on the road going from gig…